Legendary director, Stanley Kubrick, was born on Jul 26, 1928 in New York City, NY. Kubrick died at the age of 70 on Mar 7, 1999 in Harpenden, Hertfordshire and was laid to rest in Childwickbury Manor Cemetery in Childwick Green, Hertfordshire, England.

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Although Kubrick was nominated for four Oscars, he never won a competitive Academy Award.

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Flying Padre (1951, )

By Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 12, 2018 From The Stop Button

Flying Padre has three types of impressive shots. The first two types involve an airplane. The short is about a New Mexico priest who flies around his 4,000-square mile parish. There are interior and exterior shots of the plane and director Kubrick gets some fantastic shots from inside out. Hes als... Read full article

Book Review--Space Odyssey: , Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

By KC on Apr 20, 2018 From Classic Movies

Space Odyssey: , Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
Michael Benson
Simon & Schuster, 2018
Upon its release, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) became a sensation as a sort of Disneyland ride for grown ups. With its innovative, and trippy special effects, it was the perfe... Read full article

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, )

By Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 13, 2018 From The Stop Button

2001: A Space Odyssey has five distinct partsthe Dawn of Man sequence, then the space station and moon visit, then the main action before the intermission, then the main action after the intermission, then the Jupiter sequence. The prehistoric sequence, where an advanced alien device puts the v... Read full article

Kubrick On Kubrick – : The Lost Tapes

By Michael on Jan 24, 2016 From Durnmoose Movie Musings

: The Lost Tapes is a short documentary which was compiled by Jim Casey from a series of tape recordings made by Jeremy Bernstein in 1966. At the time of the recordings, Kubrick was in the midst of making 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Bernstein was writing a profile on the director. Case... Read full article

Abigail Rosen, who co-starred with Viva in Andy Warhol's Tub Girls (1967), was the first door lady at Max's Kansas City, a nightclub in New York City. She claims she had the honor of throwing Kubrick out of the club. "At first Mickey [Ruskin] hired me as the coat-check girl, but it was on the second floor and we were schlepping coats from downstairs to upstairs, and taking them back down where the people wanted to leave. It was not a good plan, besides which people would go up and steal coats. So we abandoned the whole idea and I became the door lady with Bob Russell. The embarrassing times were when Mickey asked us to kick somebody out. The philosophy behind it was that no one would beat on or abuse a woman. I was asked one night to kick Stanley Kubrick out. He was drunk and obnoxious and neither Mickey or I knew who he was. I said, 'Sir, I think it's time for you to leave now, you're not going to be happy here.' And he left. Then Mickey found out the next day who we had kicked out, and he yelled at me for not recognizing him. 'That's why I have you here,' he said, 'you're supposed to know who these people are.'".

The controversy around A Clockwork Orange (1971)'s UK release was so strong that Kubrick was flooded with angry letters and protesters were showing up at his home, demanding that the film never be shown in England again. He personally petitioned the studio to pull it from theaters, despite his legal inability to control a film after production. The studio, out of respect for Kubrick, eventually decided to pull the film out of theaters prematurely.